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f^F all plants this is perhaps the most variously named, being 
called indifferently Ground Cherry, Winter Cherry, and Straw¬ 
berry Tomato. The first name is applicable to several of the 
same genus, because of their habit, being merely straggling, 
2 ? herbaceous plants of low stature. It belongs to what is 
classed as the Nightshade family, which embraces plants not 
only producing flowers to gratify the eye, but fruits for the sustenance 
of man and the pleasing of his palate — as the tomato, potato, and egg 
plant. The Winter Cherry is found in gardens and cultivated fields, 
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growing as if indigenous to the soil, though in some instances care is 
J given it, which of course improves its quality. The. fruit is about the 
p) size of a strawberry or cherry, being yellowish in color, and remains 
f, ) on the plant during winter, which explains its second synonym, while 
the third is sufficiently apparent. The berry is surrounded by a bladder-like 
calyx, which hides as well as protects it, whence the name Physalis, from the 
Greek, denoting a bladder. 
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~\T OU vow, and swear, and super-praise my parts, 
When I am sure you hate me in your hearts. 
AH ! many hearts have changed since we two parted, 
^ And many grown apart as time hath sped — 
Till we have almost deem’d that the true-hearted 
Abided only with the faithful dead. 
— Shakespeare. 
And some we trusted with a fond believing, 
Have turn’d and stung us to the bosom’s core; 
And life hath seem’d but as a vain deceiving, 
From which we turn aside, heart-sick and sore. 
— Mrs. C. M. Chandler. 
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N open foe may prove a curse, 
But a pretended friend is worse. 
—Gay. 
AVIIIAT man so wise, what earthly wit so ware, To seem like truth, whose shape she well can feign, 
’ ' As to descry the crafty, cunning train And fitting gestures to her purpose frame, 
By which deceit doth mask in visor fair, The guiltless man with guile to entertain? 
And cast her colors, dyed deep in grain, 
- Spenser. 
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